System Daemon

A Xiaomi background service that gathers device performance and usage statistics; community lists treat it as telemetry. It is safe to disable: you lose nothing most people will miss.

What it does

System Daemon is a background service on MIUI and HyperOS phones with no screen of its own. Community analyses describe it as a collector of device statistics, such as performance, battery and usage counters, that it prepares for upload to Xiaomi. It starts at boot and runs in the background.

Also shown as MIUI Daemon.

If you disable it

Nothing you will notice; community testers report no lost features after disabling it.

How to disable it

On most phones Settings greys out Disable for this package, so ADB is the way to turn it off. The commands below work without root and can be undone.

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.miui.daemon

adb shell pm enable com.miui.daemon

The stronger option removes it for your user only; the original copy stays on the phone and a factory reset brings it back. Prefer disabling: it is easier to undo.

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.miui.daemon

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.miui.daemon

New to ADB? Set it up in about ten minutes.

Data and battery

Community analyses report that it gathers device and usage statistics for Xiaomi; Xiaomi has not documented this package by name.

Where it appears

• Made by Xiaomi.
• Android versions: 13 to 16.